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Excellent question. At somepoint, I think the only answer is, "have a bunch of different people run a bunch of experiments on the same protein."

The threshold for "real" in particle physics is +5 sigma. Which takes a lot of data.




you really can't compare stats like that. Those are independent, uncorrelated measurements. When you take RMSD measurements on a molecule they are not independent (for example, atoms near the core are less likely to be "inaccurate").




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